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> Apple won the smartphone wars a long time ago. This is a bold statement. On what measure? Last that I've seen is that almost 87% of the smartphone market is

> Apple won the smartphone wars a long time ago. This is a bold statement. On what measure? Last that I've seen is that almost 87% of the smartphone market is dominated by Android. It might be true for app monetization, but definitely not as a whole. Good read though.

denzil_correa 10y ago
> Last that I've seen is that almost 87% of the smartphone market is dominated by Android. How much money does the iPhone versus the Android phones make?
- do_it_simpler 10y ago
  How much more money can Google make with the data they get from that 87% of market share than Apple can make from the iPhones themselves?
  - denzil_correa 10y ago
    You have a legitimate point but that is tangential to the parent comment which says that Anroid (an operating system) wins over iPhone (a hardware) because Android has more market share. I was merely asking if market share translated to money. If so, what was the difference and how did Android win?
    - mariobertschler 10y ago
      for the record, I did not claim that Android wins over iPhone, the point is that the article claimed the opposite
    - do_it_simpler 10y ago
      Ah, I see now. I took your question as saying that Apple "won" the smartphone wars because their sales are (iirc) more profitable. My mistake.
  - nileshtrivedi 10y ago
    Isn't that like asking "How much money Apache web server made?" Did IIS "win" the HTTP-server wars?
- KirinDave 10y ago
  This isn't even a well formed question. How would you compare the two? There isn't even one Android phone to point to as the basis of comparison, or one corporate bottom line. Do we count the money lost by Samsung in this last flub? Do we count Xiomei even though their economics are quite different from Apple? Everyone is so eager to justify the idea that Apple "won" a war of some sort. Jaded tech writers on their throne of paper and blood pronouncing it "done" because they're bored, while the stuff we've seen in Microsoft and Google's R&D demos suggest it's just getting started.

denzil_correa 10y ago

> Last that I've seen is that almost 87% of the smartphone market is dominated by Android. How much money does the iPhone versus the Android phones make?

do_it_simpler 10y ago
How much more money can Google make with the data they get from that 87% of market share than Apple can make from the iPhones themselves?
- denzil_correa 10y ago
  You have a legitimate point but that is tangential to the parent comment which says that Anroid (an operating system) wins over iPhone (a hardware) because Android has more market share. I was merely asking if market share translated to money. If so, what was the difference and how did Android win?
  - mariobertschler 10y ago
    for the record, I did not claim that Android wins over iPhone, the point is that the article claimed the opposite
  - do_it_simpler 10y ago
    Ah, I see now. I took your question as saying that Apple "won" the smartphone wars because their sales are (iirc) more profitable. My mistake.
- nileshtrivedi 10y ago
  Isn't that like asking "How much money Apache web server made?" Did IIS "win" the HTTP-server wars?
KirinDave 10y ago
This isn't even a well formed question. How would you compare the two? There isn't even one Android phone to point to as the basis of comparison, or one corporate bottom line. Do we count the money lost by Samsung in this last flub? Do we count Xiomei even though their economics are quite different from Apple? Everyone is so eager to justify the idea that Apple "won" a war of some sort. Jaded tech writers on their throne of paper and blood pronouncing it "done" because they're bored, while the stuff we've seen in Microsoft and Google's R&D demos suggest it's just getting started.